For those who skipped the last movie and who have access to the project files,…we are in project AEA_Advanced Animation, and we're looking around inside comp 00-keyframes 101.…To reveal the keyframes, you can press U to reveal all animated properties.…And we were just discussing that keyframes contain a lot more than just a…particular value at a particular point in time.…For one, if you have two different keyframes at different points in time with…different values, After Effects will interpolate between those values, vary from…one value to the next over that period of time between the two keyframes.…

In other words, it just doesn't abruptly change when it hits a new keyframe.…And if I RAM-preview, you can see this.…You can see how scale doesn't jump.…It gradually scales the object up and down. And you'll also see that…position doesn't jump from keyframe to keyframe; the object actually moves…along its motion path.…But keyframes can do a lot more than just hold a value and interpolate;…they also define how fast those values change from keyframe to keyframe and…

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11/7/2016

Released

1/26/2011

In this course, Chris Meyer helps beginning After Effects artists take their animations to the next level. Chris shows how to refine animations to create elegant, coordinated movements with the minimum number of keyframes—as well as slam-downs, whip pans, and other attention-getters. Additional movies show how to reverse-engineer existing animations, create variations on a theme, and master other parts of the program. Even though this course is designed for beginners, even veterans should learn tricks that many experienced users are unaware of. Chris' friendly running commentary lets you in on his mental process as he works on an animation. Exercise files for After Effects CS4 through CC are included with the course.

After Effects Apprentice is created by Trish and Chris Meyer and designed to be used on their own and as a companion to their book After Effects Apprentice.

Topics include:

Understanding how keyframes work under the hood

Controlling the anchor point to create more predictable animations

Mastering the Graph Editor for the ultimate control over keyframes

Animating parameters including motion paths

Hand-drawing motion paths to simplify complex movements

Applying and tweaking Motion Blur

Using hold keyframes

Skill Level Beginner

3h 1m

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A: There isn't an effect that can create these types of transitions. It's really a matter of animating the type and camera, using basic keyframing and positioning.

If
you understand the basics of moving the anchor point of a type layer,
animating the parameters of that layer (Scale, Rotation, Position,
etc.) and then separately animating the camera around the type layers, you
can achieve different types of transitions. Check out the following videos for more information:

Q: This course was updated on 11/09/2012. What changed?

A: We have updated the movie dealing with Time Display to be applicable to working with different versions of After Effects (from CS4 to CS6). We also added a movie that shows our premium subscribers how to use the exercise files, including the new exercise files designed for After Effects CS6.

Q: This course was updated on 11/07/2016. What changed?

A: We updated five videos to stay up to date with the latest changes in After Effects CC.